`Garbage` Plan?

October 30, 1987|By Dina M. Lawrence.

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS — Rep. Larry Wennlund (R., New Lenox) is another politician long on ideas and short on logic. He has proposed that each county should be required to dispose of its waste within its own borders.

On the surface this seems reasonable, but consider the following: Should we require that the jobs that produce those wastes be given only to residents of that county? Should we also require county-by-county residency restrictions on the purchase of the goods and services that produce wastes. And should we limit access to restaurants, colleges, zoos, theaters and sports stadiums to those who live within certain political boundaries?

Our garbage problem is our collective problem. And each of us is individually responsible for the situation that we have today. But more important, each of us is individually responsible for the solutions that we can implement today.